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=== Monuments and memorials === [[File:Richmond Riverside, statue of Virginia Woolf (3).jpg|thumb|Statue of Virginia Woolf in Richmond-upon-Thames created by Laury Dizengremel]] In 2013, Woolf was honoured by her alma mater King's College London with the opening of the Virginia Woolf Building on [[Kingsway, London|Kingsway]],{{sfn|King's College, London|2013}} together with an exhibit depicting her accompanied by the quotation "London itself perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play & a story & a poem" from her 1926 diary.<ref name=Squier204/> The [[University of Kent]] also named a college after herβ[[Woolf College, Kent|Woolf College]], which was built in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Woolf College |url=https://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/canterbury/canterbury-campus/building/woolf-college/ |access-date=8 November 2024 |website=University of Kent}}</ref> Busts of Virginia Woolf have been erected at her home in Rodmell, Sussex, and at Tavistock Square, London, where she lived between 1924 and 1939. She is also honoured at Tavistock Square by the Woolf & Whistle, a bar that is located near where her house once stood.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Woolf & Whistle |url=https://www.imperialhotels.co.uk/hotels/tavistock-hotel/restaurants-bars/the-woolf--whistle/57-7/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=www.imperialhotels.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> In 2014, she was one of the inaugural honorees in the [[Rainbow Honor Walk]], a [[List of halls and walks of fame|walk of fame]] in [[San Francisco]]'s [[Castro District, San Francisco|Castro neighbourhood]] noting [[LGBTQ]] people who have "made significant contributions in their fields".{{sfn|Barmann|2014}} A campaign was launched in 2018 to erect a statue of Woolf in Richmond-upon-Thames, where she lived for 10 years.{{sfn|Flood|2020}} In November 2022 the statue, created by sculptor Laury Dizengremel, was unveiled. It depicts Woolf on a bench overlooking the River Thames and is the first full-size statue of Woolf.{{sfn|Guest|2022}}{{sfn|Temple|2022}}
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